The following inscription items are from the Oxford University Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents: Image Bank of Inscriptions. The Centre is undertaking a long-term project to create a library of digitized images of Greek inscriptions, based in the first instance on material in its squeeze collection. Images of several hundred inscriptions are now available for viewing and downloading at resolutions of 72 dpi and 150 dpi. The images are listed according to geographical region - except for Attic inscriptions, which have been further divided between IG I and IG II texts. Relevant images for Egypt, Cyprus and the Near East and the Aegean Islands are included below.

One of a group of four fragments (ED 17, 26, 130, 194) of a Koan honorific decree dating to the late third century for an unnamed individual who mediated Koan relations with a Ptolemaic king; the present fragment refers to royal gifts, the import of grain from Cyprus, and a Ptolemy - presumably Ptolemy IV. The inscription was dated by Segre to the late fourth or early third century, but it was cut by the same stonemason as ED 49 which seems to belong to the context of the Cretan War at the end of the third century.
PH 7 was associated by R. Herzog (RivFil 20 (1942) 13-18, 6B) with ED 17 and should be part of the same inscription. ED 110 may provide a further fragment of the jigsaw.
Date: ca. 200(?) BCE.

A team from the University of Sydney has been excavating at the site of the ancient theatre at Paphos in western Cyprus since 1995. Situated a short way up the coast from the legendary birthplace of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, the city of Paphos was founded on the site of a small earlier settlement in the later part of the fourth century BC. It soon became the capital of the island and the major regional trading port under the Ptolemies of Alexandria in Egypt who included Cyprus as part of their empire.

By Maria Economou (Linacre College, Oxford OX1 3JA, UK) e-mail: economou @ vax.ox.ac.uk .This article gives an account of the history and archaeology of the Greek colony of Euesperides in Cyrenaica. It also describes a project based at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford for the multimedia presentation of the surviving evidence about the site, which is part of doctoral research on the use of multimedia systems in archaeology and museums. [From University of Tasmania, Australia *ELECTRONIC ANTIQUITY* (Vol 1, Iss 4 - Sep 1993)]

Topics include: Introduction Where is Euesperides? History What was Euesperides? Excavations How did we find out about Euesperides?
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By Andrea M. Berlin. What life was like in Hellenistic Palestine. A very important overview article incorporating the latest information on this topic. Each of the article's pages have been scanned as GIF files. Worth the annoying wait to download the large page images. [You get what you pay for.]
From: Biblical Archaeologist (Vol 60, No 1, Mar 1997)(c)Scholars Press, 1997

The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition)
by Roger S. Bagnall
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The Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace was a renowned center of religious life in the eastern Mediterranean from the 7th century B.C. until the 4th century of the Christian era, and the mysteries practiced there rank in age and historical importance with those of Eleusis. Vol. 10 of the Samothrace excavations focuses on the elaborate Propylon dedicated by Ptolemy II, which was, from early Hellenistic times, the entrance to the Sanctuary. Among ancient Greek gatehouses, only the Propylaia of the Athenian Akropolis matched the Samothracian Proplyon in precipitousness of site and number of unusual features. The excavation of the Propylon at Ptolemy II was begun in 1963 under the direction of James R. McCredie as archaeologist, and Professor Frazer as architect and art historian.

by Ino Nicolaou. ISBN: 918505870X.
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(Compiled by David Gill). Covers: Early investigations; The early Ashmolean Museum excavations (1952-54); The Libyan Society investigations (1968-69); The Libyan Society investigations (1995-); and Other relevant studies.

by Christian Habicht, Deborah Lucas Schneider (Translator).
Hardcover: 416 pages. Harvard University Press (Nov 1997); ISBN: 0674051114 ; Dimensions (inches): 1.18 x 9.49 x 6.55
Athens' fortunes seemed to be on a downward spiral after Alexander's effective takeover in 323 BCE. Habicht shows that though foreign policy and domination were effectively taken out of her hands, Greece's greatest polis never lost autonomy in internal affairs, and culturally, intellectually and socially, she retained a leading role in the Hellenistic era. 406p (Harvard UP 1997) HbOrder This book from Amazon.com

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